Before the Revolutionary war, a man by the name of Barnaby Cabe owned some land on a nearby river. After the war, his son built a mill and had 9 daughters many of whom married mill owners along the river. One daughter stayed on the family lands, married and took a new name. Her descendants occupied the land for another hundred years. It’s now part of a state park and just off a neglected path you can still visit the remains of the Cabe family cemetery.
The stones are scattered seemingly randomly and many are canted at strange angles. Trees have grown and fallen. Dead leaves carpet the whole area. The oldest stone markers aren’t even carved. One is a faded and broken slab of sandstone that dates the eighteenth century. There’s nothing about the woods immediately surrounding the graves that indicates that people once lived here – no remains of a household or clearing even. No view of the river. Just a few stones scattered forlornly among the trees.
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mthew
/ February 16, 2013The forest returns, but the stones do not forget.
seekraz
/ February 16, 2013What a find.
catherinefaherty
/ February 16, 2013It’s beautiful in a remembering way.
Elyse
/ February 16, 2013I love old graveyards. They are so beautiful and peaceful. And the black and white pictures do them justice, Fork!
Sandy Sue
/ February 17, 2013Humans try so hard to stay remembered.
2Spools
/ February 17, 2013In their own way, those stones stand proud. They stand on the earth that those beneath them left.
Barbara Backer-Gray
/ February 17, 2013Intriguing!
35andupcynicismonhold
/ February 19, 2013hello, Tori… lovely series… your pics captured the mood of the place, ahaha. i really like the first – plenty of trees with shrubs in between…
vatelechuza
/ February 23, 2013I love the mood and sacred aspect of cemeteries!! Your pics are awesome!! And in B&W more intense feelings…